The Seburi Story
1985 · 125 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 33 VOTES · DIR. Sadao Nakajima
Overview
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Dialogue Timeline — 618 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:05 TOEI Company LTD.
00:02:46 So-so.
00:07:56 Thanks for meeting my daughter.
00:16:15 The Sun-Goddess hid herself behind the rocks.
00:20:45 It'll be splendid if you marry her.
00:27:26 Law breakers are the enemy of us tribesmen.
00:37:09 Wild dogs don't attack humans. He must be dead already...
00:39:13 The national mobilization law was enacted this April.
00:42:42 You must find a good husband soon.
00:47:28 Kazuo.
00:55:33 I can still get a man, can't I?
01:01:35 Come on.
01:05:22 She likes you very much.
01:10:24 "Jiro lyo will leave the front door" in my costume.
01:14:55 Do you like me?
01:19:31 My buddies are lying under the sod
01:22:16 Ok. I'll marry you.
01:25:01 How can you trust him?
01:30:52 Am I not right?
01:34:04 Are you going to Tokyo after your exam?
01:38:34 What are you doing?
01:46:28 Jiro doesn't know her. You don't know her.
01:56:36 Will you marry her?
02:02:19 She's about to have the fourth baby.